THE CHOSEN

Chapter: 11

"LAWS"

355 Rules and regulations, not to mention a bout a hundred more of traditions and additions that one had to follow, yet after all the scheming and all the manipulation the council had done to get to this point they had failed. The father was here, claiming his rights and despite not knowing what that meant, he was here facing them, by his side was raven the now true ruler of azarath, now there was nothing they could do. She had kept her world; she had brought back the father of her children. The man was a warrior that was clear by the way he was dressed and how he faced them with out fear or apprehension, he stood his ground and despite not bothering to look towards raven he was here to support her.

Raven for the most part just smiled at the look on the council is face, they had all set this up so that she would failed, but in the end there plans had been all but ruined, now all that was needed was to test Richard is DNA and matched it to her kids, after that the challenges would start. Glancing at the man beside her she could see the serious look on his face and the meaning behind that posture, he was pissed.

"Richard…I"

Before he could answer her a massive explosion shakes the building they were in while bright light illuminated the sky, Richard turned to face her. Then out of no were a figure materialized to his right, it was a woman half his size wearing a full leather outfit along with a purple cloaked that covered her of her body.

"It is done"

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!"

The council was beginning to get scare, the whole place was in motion as guards rushed into the room and pointed there weapons at the intruder, yet that was not what was worrying the men gathered in this room, what was worrying them was the noises they were hearing outside the room. What ever had happened, what ever it was that had been set free was getting closer to them.

"My friends are coming"

"FRIENDS?!"

The door leading to the inside of the chambers was burst open and in came a blur of a figure that proceeded to knock the guards out. The figure that was soon followed by a purple wave of energy as a pink hair girl walked into the room with a frown on her face, beside her a massive green animal growled in anger.

"Sorry we are late, but they had double the guards"

Shade dropped her illusion and turned to the others with a smile, she had been under that damn illusion for half the mission here, it was not that she liked to appear older it was just that others tended to fear her more when she was in older self. Raven did a double take and frowned, the woman was no more than a 13 year old girl, one she knew all to well.

"Azan"

The yellow eyed girl smirked and took a smug stands beside batman, she knew that the others would recognized her once she dropped her little illusion, but she didn't care, now that Richard is friend were out she didn't need to fear what the council of raven would do to her. Richard had promised to keep her safe and after what he had done for her she believed him.

"That criminal…he has brought her here?!"

One of the elders spoke with disgust in his voice, raven looked at him and frowned, she had seen the girl is case, she had been one of the best criminals azarath had, what was more surprising about her was the fact that she had been born a methahuman.

"It seems that they do not like your new friend there bats"

Light speed smiled at the dark knight who simply smirked at his friend, to his right jinx smiled at him with a raised eye brow.

"Care to explain who she is?"

"Oh don't tell me you're like your father?"

Logan smile and poked him in the arm, shade looked at them confused and then turn to look at batman who was shaking his head in annoyance, this was getting out of hand and if the look raven was giving him was any indication she was beginning to lose her patience.

"I came because I heard a rumor"

Raven froze at the tone of his voice, and at what he had said, but batman took no care in what he was saying he simply looked all around the council chambers with a glare on his face.

"You have my children; I came to get them back"

The council recoiled in shock and raven closed her eyes, she was afraid that this would happened, he had figured out what was going on, but how he had done it was something she needed to find out, how much did he knew about the situation? Was he even aware of what was at stake here? Before he could continue to talk she steps right before him places her hand on his chest. She needed to silence him before he said something out of place, there were rules and regulations that needed to be followed, the council was not to be dealt with lightly.

Beside batman the titans looked at the girl with frowns on there faces, her actions had not won her any friends, but by not explaining the situation she was only digging herself further into trouble. They had been set up and imprisoned because of her, to say that there patience had ran out would be an understatement. For her part raven knew that she was in the wrong, but for now they had to deal with the situation and she had to make herself focus on what was at stake.

"Stop this let me speak"

She couldn't deal with both the elders and the titans all at once, she was being attacked from both sides and she didn't know what to do, right now how ever she knew that the titans took priority over the elders, if she didn't do something about them, thing could get out of hand.

"Why should he!?"

Light speed looked at her with anger burning in his eyes, he was pissed, no he was more than that and by the looks she was getting from jinx she was in the same boat. The only one who seems to want to listen to her was beast boy, but he was keeping his mouth shut, he knew that the situation was already becoming too much for both sides.

"Because you insolent old fool we are the ones who make the rules here"

One of the elders spoke up and glared at the group, jinx is eyes flashed bright pink as she turned to face the elder; she had had enough of this whole situation.

"Be silent fool"

Jinx is hand glowed a bright purple and the man is mouth was glued shut, the others began to cream in outrage when then building began to shake and tremble, jinx had enough of this situation and of the deceit. Raven frowned and activated her bird form, she had had enough of this as well, but she needed to proceed according to the rules and stipulation, she had made a deal after all, besides that the council still had her kids, if they so wished they could kill them and be done with it. They were only tolerating this because it was the only way they could acquire azarath is power legitimately, if they would do something to betray there world the azarath people would never trust them.

The others frowned at raven is action and were ready for an attack, she however had another thing in mind, in a second all of the titans along side azan were completely engulfed by raven is black wings, then as soon before the council could object or say any thing they were out and away from the room. Two second later they were on azarath is memorial chambers, were the first queen of azarath resided and were all those who had given there lives to fight trigon rested, as the massive soul self bird banished and resided back into raven all the titans looked on with anger, all but one. Batman simply stood there, facing her as if daring her to say something, to even speak a word, he knew that she had no words to say, that no explanation would be enough.

"There are guards outside Richard"

Batman nodded to azan and signaled jinx to sealed the doors with one of her spells, nodding she immediately does as she is told and the doors are sealed, light speed and beast boy seeing her actions immediately jump into high gear and begin to search the area just in case. In minutes light speed has the whole area scanned, knows the best ways to escape and has even counted how many guards are all over the place, beast boy how ever has taken a more active role. Turning himself into a fly he set out to take out the guards and secure there location, they didn't need more surprises.

Azan stands beside batman, with a look of surprised on her face, never before had she seen such beings with those kinds of skills, only those of the high guard and azarath nobility could do the things they were doing, she had been born a misfit, an oddity a dangerous one that was a threat to the purity of the noble clan, that is why she had been an out cast, but now she was seeing that she was no freak, she was normal.

"Azan go with jinx, I need a moment with raven"

"Ah, sure thing"

Jinx signals her to follow her and together they leave the room, there is no point in staying here any more, the guards outside had been taken care of and light speed had already map out the entire structure, all they needed to do was wait and see what batman would decide.

"Richard I…"

Holding out hand he silences her with out a world, he can't deal with any thing she has to say right now, from the beginning it has been nothing but lies upon lies, he can't allow himself to trust her any more. He needed to focus on the mission, his kids, he had kids and they were in danger, nothing else mattered right now, he would deal with her when the time was right.

"I gathered some information, but I need to know what exactly is going on here"

"Richard I…"

"No, raven I don't need to listen to what you have to say, all I know is that your elders have you-our kids now tell me what happened?"

She turned away from him and took a deep breath, she knew that he was right but she wanted to explain to him, she wanted him to understand, to know why she had done what she did, but she knew that this was not the right time, perhaps it would never be the right time. She had lied and used him since the beginning, but before that she had abandoned him, left him broken hearted and alone, how could she expect him to act towards her if she had been nothing but pain to him.

"The council wants power; I believe that…they want to take over"

Richard nodded and frowned, if that was true then why bring in trigon into this? Was he just a ploy or was that threat serious? Aside from that he had the feeling that raven knew something he didn't.

"How exactly did they get them, or for that matter how on earth is trigon involved in this?"

"I don't have all the specifics but…wait, our bond did you"

"I don't care about our bond! What interest me is the welfare of my kids, our kids, we will deal with us until we finish dealing with this situation and they are safe is that clear?"

"It's all intertwined! They use me damn it, they knew how to turn me into a mindless puppet and for a while they did…until my children were born"

"Explain yourself"

"When I realized I was pregnant I came here and accepted what ever help they would offer me, I was afraid that as trigon is portal my children would be tainted and be susceptible to his influence"

"They promised to help you, what did they gain in return?"

"They held an upper hand on trigon, by keeping me close they…could figure out a way to stop him, maybe seal him for ever in his plane of existence"

"There is something else isn't there"

"Trigon escape, slade is not slade he is trigon is little incubation pod"

It couldn't be that easy, slade had cheated death of course there were going to be consequences to that, beside he had gotten his life back way to easy, that demon wouldn't of given him his life back if he didn't have any thing planed for him. A small frown formed on his mask and raven knew that something was wrong.

"Slade is not a problem"

"You dealt with him?"

If he had been dealt with then why were the elders doing all of this? Trigon had been dealt with his new body was taken care of and yet things kept happening, shaking her head she turned away from him and takes a deep breath.

"Doesn't make any sense does it?"

"No, but we have to go trough the right of manhood, in order for us to get the kids back we have to prove to the council that you are the father, after that they will denied any involvement with the kidnapping and we will have to pursue there trail on our own"

"Fine by me, lets get it over with and get the kids back"

"You don't understand these trials…"

"Will be met"

He was confident, but he would need more than confidence to win these trials, Richard not waiting for a reply simply walked out of the small room, outside he meet his friends and told them of the situation, jinx nodded and clenched her fist in anger, when all this was settled she was going to have a long conversation with raven.

"We got your back!"

Beast boy exclaimed and the rest nodded, Richard smiled and nodded.

"Yeah man no problem"

Light speed smirked and gave him the classic thumps up.

"I will only help you Richard, me and her will settle up afterwards"

Jinx glared at raven and placed ah and on batman is shoulder, azan smiled and jumped up from the sitting position she was on the ground.

"So boss what is the move?"

Batman smiled and turned towards raven.

"You heard the girl"

Raven frowned but nodded, she had no idea with the council is plan was now that slade was gone, she had began to understand what they were planning but now every thing was right were it had began, she had no idea what to do next, but she had to act. The only things left to do was play there game and hope that they were strong enough to deal whit the consequences.

"Very well"

Continued……

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